Hello Aeshnabx, I hope you are well.
Good job for not stopping drawing, doing an act of drawing can be hard for many people and is definitely for me too in some days but it is important to just push through for even "5 minutes" to get our engines working.
Well that motivation thing aside let's start with your arrows:
They are coming along really nicely, you are overlapping them to show the perspective and making them smaller as they go into a distance. Your lines are smooth, but the thing that I would fix is your lineweight technique, for now you are applying it really unappealing, you need to know that if you strengthen the line we need to blend the transition from one pass to 2nd one https://imgur.com/OHvr7Mb this diagram may be helpful to convey what I want to say more. Also remember to apply it without using your wrist.
Secondly your leaves:
You definitely focused on details in this part of the assignment, which isn't a bad thing if your construction and flow is good to begin with, but I feel like yours are lacking, for a start few of your leaves don't bend enough and just feel flat. https://drawabox.com/lesson/3/2/flowline
What we want from leaves is to make them flow in your drawings, details come later, because they can't stand on their own and good construction can and will.
Moving into your branches:
They are overly good, I would love it if you did them more, but you drew so many plants that I think this number is enough. When you connect segments remember to not make them look like two separate lines, always try to make them be seen as one, it may come with later experience as this is not a simple thing to do. https://drawabox.com/lesson/3/2/tails
Lastly your plants:
You did so many of them and thats really good. Last ones look really gorgeous, also their construction looks good in later ones. But all that good stuff being said you are drawing way too small.
This is your biggest issue.
When we draw small with our shoulder or elbow it becomes extremely awkward and we draw clumsy that way. I would say that 2 plants is maximum per page and personally if I were to redo lesson 3 I would do 1 per page for comfort of drawing. So, I'm fairly confident that giving yourself more room to draw with your whole arm will help a great deal.
As said earlier your drawings are nice but what we are doing here are exercises and what we want to get out of those is is not a nice looking outcome but we want to learn something from them, may it be how to construct a mushroom or how leaves flow from a branch of a x plant.
Also in few of your leaves I could see this problem https://drawabox.com/lesson/3/2/zigzag
It happened only in 2 or 3 plants so it isn't nothing major.
So before moving on I think that doing 3 additional plants would help you tremendously in your future endeavours.
You may also do 1 page of leaves with focus on making them flow as much as possible but that is just extra "homework" if you wanna get better even more.
Next Steps:
Please submit 3 additional pages of plant construction. Draw big, 1 big plant per page. You dont have to detail them, bare construction is fine.
You also may submit 1 page of leaves with focus on flow, but this is not required.
Thank you so much for the critique! I went looking for other submissions and the number of plants seemed to be more or less the same, but you're right. I had a feeling that those little ellipses in some of the drawings were getting too difficult. I'll do the four pages and get back to you.
Here they are. There are a couple of leaves wrong, so ignore those :P
This is definitely better, your construction is solid, you are drawing big which helps you build up confidence with your lines.
Your branches look good, you are blending the lines smoothly, good job on that.
Your leaves flow nicely, they still could see some work, but they are good enough. One thing that i would point out is that you overdid the contours on the last plant, when doing contours in the construction stage we use minimal amount, just to represent a form.
That's the only thing that i would point out, the rest is good so again nice job fixing your mistakes
Next Steps:
Proceed to lesson 4!
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